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Getting the most out of the Digital revolution for Small BusinessRethink Marketing
The document discusses the digital revolution and the new model of marketing required for the digital era. It outlines how customers, staff, and technology have changed, with customers now being online, savvy, mobile, and demanding. It also discusses how the new buying process has changed, with customers better researched both online and offline. The document then discusses how staff expectations have changed regarding reputation, knowledge, communications, and IT. It proposes a new model of inbound and outbound marketing leveraging content, social media, sales channels, and CRM to meet the new demands of the digital customer.
IBM Spotlight Session: Social Selling as a B2B Prospecting ToolVivastream
The document summarizes IBM's use of social selling as a B2B prospecting tool. It discusses how social networks have changed how clients buy and how IBM has transformed its inside sales model to engage clients through social media. It outlines IBM's social selling strategy, which includes social listening, participating in conversations, identifying influencers, and focusing on high-value content. The results shown include over 900 sellers in 170 countries using social effectively to build awareness, extend reach, and drive leads.
This webinar discusses 5 steps to creating an engaging customer experience:
1. Identify who your customers are through segmentation analysis
2. Understand how customers are buying in today's digital landscape
3. Engage customers where they get their information across multiple channels
4. Shape conversations by providing relevant content to customers at different stages
5. Continuously test and optimize engagement based on data insights
The webinar emphasizes integrating platforms for a unified customer view and engaging customers throughout their buying journey.
Peru Marketing Symposium 2012 David RogersDavid Rogers
The document discusses reinventing marketing for a world of customer networks. It introduces David Rogers, a consultant and author, and provides information about his book, newsletter, and upcoming executive program on customer network marketing. Contact information and links are provided for a free chapter, newsletter, and purchasing the book. The remainder of the document consists of slides that discuss moving from mass marketing to customer network marketing, and strategies like access, engage, connect, collaborate, and customize for inspiring customer advocacy in networks.
How to Acquire Your First Customer - DohertyWhiteMotarme Limited
The document discusses strategies for acquiring a startup's first customer. It covers the importance of the first customer in helping resolve business and technical issues. The rest of the document outlines a scenario for acquiring the first customer, including defining target customers, crafting an effective pitch, creating a product launch plan, optimizing the website, leveraging personal and professional networks, implementing email marketing, and using Google Ads and PR. The goal is to help generate early sales and learn lessons to improve the business.
Strategic roadmap for digital marketing an e-book-for-chief-marketing-officersDung Tri
This document provides a strategic roadmap for digital marketing. It includes sections on digital channels, marketing techniques, and optimization. The introduction provides an overview and framework for developing a coherent multi-channel digital marketing strategy. Subsequent articles from experts provide advice on topics like advertising, search marketing, social media, content marketing, and improving ROI and accountability. The goal is to help marketers design an effective digital strategy to engage customers and create value.
Getting the most out of the Digital revolution for Small BusinessRethink Marketing
The document discusses the digital revolution and the new model of marketing required for the digital era. It outlines how customers, staff, and technology have changed, with customers now being online, savvy, mobile, and demanding. It also discusses how the new buying process has changed, with customers better researched both online and offline. The document then discusses how staff expectations have changed regarding reputation, knowledge, communications, and IT. It proposes a new model of inbound and outbound marketing leveraging content, social media, sales channels, and CRM to meet the new demands of the digital customer.
IBM Spotlight Session: Social Selling as a B2B Prospecting ToolVivastream
The document summarizes IBM's use of social selling as a B2B prospecting tool. It discusses how social networks have changed how clients buy and how IBM has transformed its inside sales model to engage clients through social media. It outlines IBM's social selling strategy, which includes social listening, participating in conversations, identifying influencers, and focusing on high-value content. The results shown include over 900 sellers in 170 countries using social effectively to build awareness, extend reach, and drive leads.
This webinar discusses 5 steps to creating an engaging customer experience:
1. Identify who your customers are through segmentation analysis
2. Understand how customers are buying in today's digital landscape
3. Engage customers where they get their information across multiple channels
4. Shape conversations by providing relevant content to customers at different stages
5. Continuously test and optimize engagement based on data insights
The webinar emphasizes integrating platforms for a unified customer view and engaging customers throughout their buying journey.
Peru Marketing Symposium 2012 David RogersDavid Rogers
The document discusses reinventing marketing for a world of customer networks. It introduces David Rogers, a consultant and author, and provides information about his book, newsletter, and upcoming executive program on customer network marketing. Contact information and links are provided for a free chapter, newsletter, and purchasing the book. The remainder of the document consists of slides that discuss moving from mass marketing to customer network marketing, and strategies like access, engage, connect, collaborate, and customize for inspiring customer advocacy in networks.
Seminar on Marketing for Technology Companies, presented for Technology Transfer Office at National University of Ireland Galway on 12 Decemer 2012. Describes how to use web marketing and content to sell high-value, complex technology products online
The Web Enabled Buyer – and why we have to change?B2B Marketing
Today's proliferation of marketing channels, multiple screens and social networks is creating radical changes in the purchasing patterns, influences and media choices of B2B buyers. This revolution is fundamentally changing the rules of engagement for sales and marketing teams. In this new world, AIDA hasn't disappeared - it's become IDEAL. Hear practical tips and advice on how your marketing efforts need to evolve in this new world.
Delegates will:
• Understand the new web enabled buyer
• See the new buying process - IDEAL
• Get useful tips on how to match tactics to buyer expectations
• Learn how to better align the sales and marketing teams
Conversational Marketing: 3 Essential Phases To Build Bi-Directional Dialogue...G3 Communications
The document discusses the importance of conversational marketing and outlines 3 essential phases to build bi-directional dialogue between prospects and vendors: focusing on understanding the buyer, implementing the right technology to enable conversations across channels, and automating follow up and content nurturing tailored to where prospects are in their buying cycle.
Advances in technology have created a new B2B marketing paradigm. In this presentation, Malcolm Friedberg and Adam Needles address how to create a holistic demand generation strategy in response to changes in the B2B buying process.
Digital Marketing ROI: Which Half of My Digital Is Working?David Rogers
Amidst a slew of data from new digital tools, even successful marketers find it hard to know "which half of my marketing is working?" – or to explain to the CFO where they should next invest in digital and why. Instead of searching for a universal ROI solution, marketers need to think strategically about their own customers' path to purchase. By linking audience, engagement, and financial impact to their key business objectives, they can build a model that ensures marketing will matter for their business in the digital age.
Customer Engagement Masterclass Part II: Why CRM is the New ERPG3 Communications
The document discusses a webinar on customer engagement and how customer relationship management (CRM) is becoming more important than enterprise resource planning (ERP) for retailers. It outlines how retailers are shifting from product-focused to customer-centric strategies using tools like clienteling, customer analytics, and personalization to improve the customer experience. Successful retailers are treating customers as individuals, gathering data to understand their preferences, and using that insight to deliver personalized service, products and communications.
Marketing Automation Enables – Not Drives – Optimized Lead Generation ProgramsG3 Communications
This document summarizes a webinar on marketing automation and lead generation. It discusses how marketing automation enables optimized lead generation programs rather than directly driving them. It also notes that integrating human touch impacts results. The webinar panelists shared their experiences implementing marketing automation and challenges they faced integrating systems and data. They discussed the need for clear business requirements and agreed upon processes between marketing, sales, and operations.
IBM Spotlight Session: Social Selling as a B2B Prospecting ToolVivastream
The document discusses IBM's use of social selling as a B2B prospecting tool. It outlines how social networks have changed B2B buying behavior, with clients now discovering information online. It also summarizes IBM's research finding that over a third of clients have used social media to engage with IT vendors. The document then provides an overview of IBM's inside sales organization and digital contact tools. It describes IBM's strategy to transform inside seller skills to match the new social selling model of building relationships through digital and social capabilities.
Digital has profoundly changed how B2B businesses need to interact with their customers. B2B customers are already embracing digital to make more informed purchase and post-purchase decisions. B2B companies need to understand how to use digital to be where (and when) their customers are. Latest McKinsey insights on B2B: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/b-to-b
Inbound marketing focuses on attracting and engaging customers through relevant and useful content rather than interrupting or interrupting them with ads. It involves tactics like search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing through blogs and articles, social media, emails, infographics and more. These tactics aim to naturally drive relevant customers to a company's website or products by providing valuable information. Inbound marketing is especially effective for knowledge-based businesses, startups and companies with long sales cycles as it allows potential customers to self-educate and identify as experts. The document then provides details on various inbound marketing tactics like SEO, social media, emails, webinars and more that could be used by the IT company Janaki Tech.
The document discusses the challenges facing CMOs and digital marketers in today's fragmented digital marketing ecosystem. It notes the opportunities presented by media fragmentation but also the need for measurement to prove ROI given barriers around uncertain returns. Mobile and social media are highlighted as major opportunities that are growing exponentially but also have unique success metrics. The presentation emphasizes building a unified view of customers across channels to better target and personalize experiences.
Marketing Options International Credentials MOI Global
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Explanations for the various aspects of an overall internet and digital marketing strategy, including search engine marketing, social media marketing, conversion-focused web design, email marketing, mobile marketing, and web analytics.
The document discusses strategies for a business to reach its target customers and achieve its goals. It focuses on defining the ideal customer through buyer personas, understanding the customer journey from awareness to purchase, and using various marketing tactics like content marketing, search engine marketing, and advertising on platforms like YP.com. The overall aim is to get the business found online by potential customers and engage with them throughout the purchase process.
The document describes a social planning tool that provides personalized event recommendations and targeted group deals to generate revenue. It aims to simplify finding things to do by cutting through the clutter of existing event websites. There is a $800 million target market based on a Groupon-like model for the events space. User interviews validated the value proposition while also providing insights into preferences around event discovery. Outreach to event organizers provided learning around promotion and monetization challenges. Further development focused on defining the user experience and business model validation.
This document summarizes a presentation on digital marketing and social media marketing. It discusses how the rules of marketing have changed in the digital age, with a focus on engaging customers through conversations rather than one-way messages. It also outlines new customer expectations around transparency, accessibility, and living company values online. The presentation emphasizes developing a digital mindset of listening to customers, responding quickly, and focusing on building relationships through social media.
The document discusses how digital technologies are transforming customer engagement and experiences. It notes the increasing complexity of engaging consumers across more channels, devices, and online networks. It then describes how a customer engagement platform can analyze customer data and interactions to better understand customers and enable personalized, multi-channel marketing programs and experiences. Examples are provided of how such a platform was used to improve campaigns for an automaker and eBay. The platform aims to listen to what customers say online and drive engagement through interactive marketing, virtual experiences, and dynamic content.
Soccnx III - The shift towards Social Selling in IBMLetsConnect
Speakers: Stephen Kruger
Our internal sales organisation is moving from a traditional legacy CRM system to a completely new Social based approach. This talk will outline the history, approach and design of this new collaborative based solution.
B2B Digital Marketing Playbook for the COVID EraRohas Nagpal
Customers have changed.
Spending patterns have changed.
People's priorities have changed.
How people spend their time has changed.
So naturally, marketing techniques
NEED TO CHANGE.
The "B2B Digital Marketing Playbook for the COVID Era" recommends an 11-point approach:
1. Understand what you are selling
2. Understand whom you are selling to
3. Design your digital marketing strategy
4. Optimize your website
5. Incentivize influencers
6. Optimize your digital marketing assets
7. Distribute your digital marketing assets
8. Make it easy for potential customers to contact you
9. Aim for a 60-second response time
10. Use dynamic QR codes
11. Use Artificial Intelligence
Seminar on Marketing for Technology Companies, presented for Technology Transfer Office at National University of Ireland Galway on 12 Decemer 2012. Describes how to use web marketing and content to sell high-value, complex technology products online
The Web Enabled Buyer – and why we have to change?B2B Marketing
Today's proliferation of marketing channels, multiple screens and social networks is creating radical changes in the purchasing patterns, influences and media choices of B2B buyers. This revolution is fundamentally changing the rules of engagement for sales and marketing teams. In this new world, AIDA hasn't disappeared - it's become IDEAL. Hear practical tips and advice on how your marketing efforts need to evolve in this new world.
Delegates will:
• Understand the new web enabled buyer
• See the new buying process - IDEAL
• Get useful tips on how to match tactics to buyer expectations
• Learn how to better align the sales and marketing teams
Conversational Marketing: 3 Essential Phases To Build Bi-Directional Dialogue...G3 Communications
The document discusses the importance of conversational marketing and outlines 3 essential phases to build bi-directional dialogue between prospects and vendors: focusing on understanding the buyer, implementing the right technology to enable conversations across channels, and automating follow up and content nurturing tailored to where prospects are in their buying cycle.
Advances in technology have created a new B2B marketing paradigm. In this presentation, Malcolm Friedberg and Adam Needles address how to create a holistic demand generation strategy in response to changes in the B2B buying process.
Digital Marketing ROI: Which Half of My Digital Is Working?David Rogers
Amidst a slew of data from new digital tools, even successful marketers find it hard to know "which half of my marketing is working?" – or to explain to the CFO where they should next invest in digital and why. Instead of searching for a universal ROI solution, marketers need to think strategically about their own customers' path to purchase. By linking audience, engagement, and financial impact to their key business objectives, they can build a model that ensures marketing will matter for their business in the digital age.
Customer Engagement Masterclass Part II: Why CRM is the New ERPG3 Communications
The document discusses a webinar on customer engagement and how customer relationship management (CRM) is becoming more important than enterprise resource planning (ERP) for retailers. It outlines how retailers are shifting from product-focused to customer-centric strategies using tools like clienteling, customer analytics, and personalization to improve the customer experience. Successful retailers are treating customers as individuals, gathering data to understand their preferences, and using that insight to deliver personalized service, products and communications.
Marketing Automation Enables – Not Drives – Optimized Lead Generation ProgramsG3 Communications
This document summarizes a webinar on marketing automation and lead generation. It discusses how marketing automation enables optimized lead generation programs rather than directly driving them. It also notes that integrating human touch impacts results. The webinar panelists shared their experiences implementing marketing automation and challenges they faced integrating systems and data. They discussed the need for clear business requirements and agreed upon processes between marketing, sales, and operations.
IBM Spotlight Session: Social Selling as a B2B Prospecting ToolVivastream
The document discusses IBM's use of social selling as a B2B prospecting tool. It outlines how social networks have changed B2B buying behavior, with clients now discovering information online. It also summarizes IBM's research finding that over a third of clients have used social media to engage with IT vendors. The document then provides an overview of IBM's inside sales organization and digital contact tools. It describes IBM's strategy to transform inside seller skills to match the new social selling model of building relationships through digital and social capabilities.
Digital has profoundly changed how B2B businesses need to interact with their customers. B2B customers are already embracing digital to make more informed purchase and post-purchase decisions. B2B companies need to understand how to use digital to be where (and when) their customers are. Latest McKinsey insights on B2B: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/b-to-b
Inbound marketing focuses on attracting and engaging customers through relevant and useful content rather than interrupting or interrupting them with ads. It involves tactics like search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing through blogs and articles, social media, emails, infographics and more. These tactics aim to naturally drive relevant customers to a company's website or products by providing valuable information. Inbound marketing is especially effective for knowledge-based businesses, startups and companies with long sales cycles as it allows potential customers to self-educate and identify as experts. The document then provides details on various inbound marketing tactics like SEO, social media, emails, webinars and more that could be used by the IT company Janaki Tech.
The document discusses the challenges facing CMOs and digital marketers in today's fragmented digital marketing ecosystem. It notes the opportunities presented by media fragmentation but also the need for measurement to prove ROI given barriers around uncertain returns. Mobile and social media are highlighted as major opportunities that are growing exponentially but also have unique success metrics. The presentation emphasizes building a unified view of customers across channels to better target and personalize experiences.
Marketing Options International Credentials MOI Global
Marketing Options International - a fully integrated B2B marketing agency fluent in the language of technology marketing success. Find out more by viewing their 2010 Credentials.
Explanations for the various aspects of an overall internet and digital marketing strategy, including search engine marketing, social media marketing, conversion-focused web design, email marketing, mobile marketing, and web analytics.
The document discusses strategies for a business to reach its target customers and achieve its goals. It focuses on defining the ideal customer through buyer personas, understanding the customer journey from awareness to purchase, and using various marketing tactics like content marketing, search engine marketing, and advertising on platforms like YP.com. The overall aim is to get the business found online by potential customers and engage with them throughout the purchase process.
The document describes a social planning tool that provides personalized event recommendations and targeted group deals to generate revenue. It aims to simplify finding things to do by cutting through the clutter of existing event websites. There is a $800 million target market based on a Groupon-like model for the events space. User interviews validated the value proposition while also providing insights into preferences around event discovery. Outreach to event organizers provided learning around promotion and monetization challenges. Further development focused on defining the user experience and business model validation.
This document summarizes a presentation on digital marketing and social media marketing. It discusses how the rules of marketing have changed in the digital age, with a focus on engaging customers through conversations rather than one-way messages. It also outlines new customer expectations around transparency, accessibility, and living company values online. The presentation emphasizes developing a digital mindset of listening to customers, responding quickly, and focusing on building relationships through social media.
The document discusses how digital technologies are transforming customer engagement and experiences. It notes the increasing complexity of engaging consumers across more channels, devices, and online networks. It then describes how a customer engagement platform can analyze customer data and interactions to better understand customers and enable personalized, multi-channel marketing programs and experiences. Examples are provided of how such a platform was used to improve campaigns for an automaker and eBay. The platform aims to listen to what customers say online and drive engagement through interactive marketing, virtual experiences, and dynamic content.
Soccnx III - The shift towards Social Selling in IBMLetsConnect
Speakers: Stephen Kruger
Our internal sales organisation is moving from a traditional legacy CRM system to a completely new Social based approach. This talk will outline the history, approach and design of this new collaborative based solution.
B2B Digital Marketing Playbook for the COVID EraRohas Nagpal
Customers have changed.
Spending patterns have changed.
People's priorities have changed.
How people spend their time has changed.
So naturally, marketing techniques
NEED TO CHANGE.
The "B2B Digital Marketing Playbook for the COVID Era" recommends an 11-point approach:
1. Understand what you are selling
2. Understand whom you are selling to
3. Design your digital marketing strategy
4. Optimize your website
5. Incentivize influencers
6. Optimize your digital marketing assets
7. Distribute your digital marketing assets
8. Make it easy for potential customers to contact you
9. Aim for a 60-second response time
10. Use dynamic QR codes
11. Use Artificial Intelligence
DohertyWhite - Introduction to Digital Marketing - ProfitNet Letterkenny July...Motarme Limited
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Within the last few years Social Media Marketing has continued to grow exponentially. While participating in social media used to be optional, it has now become a key channel for business to engage their consumers in. Connie Bensen explores 8 key areas where brands can harness social media marketing.
This document outlines a digital marketing presentation for startups on acquiring customers online. It discusses the changing landscape of B2B purchasing where most research is now done online. It emphasizes using both inbound lead generation techniques like content marketing and SEO as well as outbound techniques like email marketing. The presentation covers defining your value proposition, targeting the right buyers, developing a customer acquisition process with steps for driving traffic, converting visitors, purchasing, and retaining customers. Personas are presented as a way to better understand target buyers. Overall it provides a framework for startups to effectively use digital marketing to generate and convert leads into customers.
Persona Marketing and Lead Nurturing- Simon Morris, AdobeLinkedIn
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This document discusses strategies for consulting firms to engage clients through their corporate websites. It recommends focusing on understanding the client's needs and buying lifecycle to provide contextual and personalized experiences. Key aspects include developing thought leadership content, optimizing the user experience, adopting responsive design for mobile, improving search and social media integration, measuring engagement, and leveraging technologies like CRM to track engagement across channels. The overall approach is to move websites beyond just information sharing to truly engaging clients through the online experience.
Presentation for NISP at Coleraine Enterprise Agency on Digital Marketing for Startups. Introduction on how to use web marketing for customer acquisition.
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Today, most companies have moved to online marketing.
That’s because Google and Facebook generate more revenue than any traditional media company. After all, they control more eyeballs. That’s why digital marketing matters; it’s where the attention is.
Nearly 5 billion people worldwide go online to shop, learn, entertain themselves and even work.
If you want to reach those people, digital marketing is a must.
Maybe you think you have a local store, so you don’t need to worry about digital marketing.
You’d be wrong.
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DohertyWhite New Frontiers Athlone Workshop August 2012
1. Digital Marketing for
Startups
How to use Digital Marketing to Generate
Leads and Acquire New Customers
15 August 2012
Michael White
2. Outcomes from today’s seminar
Digital marketing is essential to promote
your business…
1. What – what are you selling?
2. Who – who are you selling to?
3. How – how do you promote yourself?
3.1 Website
3.1 Google ads
3.1 Social media
3.1 Email marketing
3.1 Search Engine Optimization
2
3. Outcomes from today’s seminar
At the end of today you should know …
1. Why Digital Marketing is important for startups
2. How you can get started
3. A structure you can use – start, middle, end
4. How to prioritize what you should do first
5. Practical examples – Google ads, blog email, Facebook etc.
6. Where to look for help
3
5. About Us
Generate more leads at
the top of the sales funnel
using online marketing –
email, Google pay-per-
click, social media and PR
Use simple techniques to
filter and process these
leads more effectively so
you generate more sales
6. About Us
• Co-founder and Director of DohertyWhite since 2010
• Enterprise Ireland mentor to 25+ early stage firms
• Ex Head of Marketing at Singularity – helped double revenue in 2 years, won the Irish
Software Association Sales Achievement award 2008, ex-member of Forrester Research
Technology Marketing Executive Council
• We’re also a startup - building our own software system – Enterprise Ireland client, Propel
Michael
program
White
• Senior Product Manager at Siemens (electronic security products) 2001 to 2005
• Also Senior Business Analyst with Elavon, Management Consultant with Deloitte &
Touche, Product Manager with Marrakech, Implementation Manager with Misys
Corporation (Kindle Banking Systems), software developer with AIB Bank
• Trinity Computer Science graduate (1990), Post-Grad Dip. Computing (2004)
7. 1 Online Marketing Strategies for Customer Acquisition
8. Digital Marketing Strategies for Startups
Your priorities as a startup
1. Confirm someone will buy your product / service
2. Build the first version of the product (prototype)
3. Get your first customer
9. Digital Marketing Strategies for Startups
How to generate leads, drive sales and increase revenue using Online Marketing
Today when people want to buy something the first place they look is the web,
whether they’re looking for shoes, a car or a house or a technology product
You need to make sure they find you when they come looking for your type of product
You need to make sure that when they find you they take an action that’s useful e.g.
subscribe, buy, register ...
We’re going to look at the overall approach and the tools you use
Product?
10. Digital Marketing Strategies for Startups
Make something people want, then sell it to them
?
Me
My potential customers
• 1. Make sure your product meets the needs of your target customers
• 2. Promote that product effectively to those customers
12. Why is Digital Marketing important?
Because this is the way businesses buy today
In a survey of 4000 B2B buyers
in the US, 80% of those
buyers said they found the
vendor, not the other way
round.
Source: MarketingSherpa –
“B2B Technology Marketing
Benchmark Survey 2008”
• Buyers are doing most of their initial research online before initiating conversations
with vendors and are better informed at an earlier stage.
• This means that by the time your sales people are aware of a prospect they will already
have visited your website, downloaded your product information, looked at competing
websites and checked out the product category on blogs and social networks
• We're moving from a focus on traditional techniques like press advertising, mail shots
and cold calling, to techniques based on websites, online ‘pay-per-click’ advertising
and ‘content-based’ marketing. 12
13. Why is Digital Marketing important?
Because your website is the top source of leads outside of
personal connections
Source:
DemandBase and Focus.com
2011 Survey of B2B IT and
marketing professionals
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14. Why is Digital Marketing important?
Because your website is the top source of leads outside of
personal connections
Source:
BuyerSphere Report
2011 (survey of B2B
buyers in Europe)
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15. Why focus on Digital Marketing?
Sources of information used
by US engineers for a specific
recent purchase
Source: MarketingSherpa –
“B2B Technology Marketing
Benchmark Survey 2008”
• This is true for technology buyers in particular – they search online both at the research
phase and during vendor selection
• Will they find you, and will they find you compelling when they do? How will you compare
with the other firms they find?
16. Why focus on Digital Marketing?
Because this is a natural progression of how sales work
1950s
to Sales teams find and persuade the buyers
1990s
Buyers start to search online, find product
1997 information from multiple vendors
2006 Buyers confer with each other via online networks
2009 Sales now use online tools to prospect, generate
and qualify leads Marketing Automation
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17. Digital Marketing for B2B is Different from B2C
• The difference isn’t always clear cut
• But generally these differences are true
B2B B2C
Higher value e.g. > €10k Lower value e.g. < 1k
High consideration - more evaluation Lower consideration – evaluation is faster
required
Perceived risk – so reducing this risk is Low risk
important for buyers
Complexity of product is greater e.g. large Generally less complex – clothes, food,
software system, machinery – so need to tickets (but exceptions e.g. cars, laptops,
educate buyers on features, differentiators some software products)
Longer, multi-phase sales cycle – can be up Immediate – transaction occurs quickly (e.g.
to 18 months purchasing consumer goods, books)
Multiple participants on buyer side (e.g. One buyer
financial manager, users, IT dept)
Executive involvement – may require sign- Buyer decides for themselves
off from senior staff or head office
Branding / emotional appeal less important Branding / emotional appeal very important
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18. But for both B2B and B2C, buyers find you online …
• In B2C, you use online marketing to bring
someone to your site so they will purchase
something directly, right now Buy Now
• In B2B, you use online marketing to bring
someone to your site so they will register for
something (a white paper, free trial ...).
• Once you have their contact details, you set up a Download
regular communication with them to build up
their interest, qualify them as sales
opportunities and persuade them to buy later
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19. The overall approach
Understand who you are targeting (your buyers) – what are their
roles, which companies do they work for, where are they, what is
important to them, how do you connect with them?
What are you selling – what does your product and service do for
them, what is your value proposition for these buyers? ?
How do you compare with competitors – which ones are worth
focusing on, how do you differentiate from them?
Generate ‘content’ – based on your understanding of the buyers,
create information that your target buyers will find useful e.g. Case
studies, white papers, research surveys, how to guides ...
Drive traffic to that content using PPC, email, SEO, PR, social http://
media
B2C – Sell your product(s) now
B2B - Capture contact details in exchange for your content
Build a relationship with those people over time via your content,
website, social media and email so they learn and understand your 19
proposition, answer their concerns and select you as their best choice
20. The overall approach
• Siemens project – acquire customers for a new consulting service
• Value proposition – reduced capital costs, reduced operational costs, ease of access to IT systems
• Buyers – CIOs, Directors of IT at top 500 companies in Ireland with more than 300 staff
• Content – created a white paper called “Migrating to Microsoft in the Cloud”
• Drive traffic – used targeted email offering the white paper, plus Google ads and PR
• Capture details – 265 contacts with targeted profile after 4 weeks, 25 leads, 10 prospects
Visitor gets white paper
Email and google ads Website registration page Siemens gets contact
details of visitor
25. What is Your Value Proposition
A value proposition is a clear statement of the tangible
results a customer gets from using your products or
services. It’s outcome focussed and stresses the
business value of what you have to offer
If you can’t demonstrate superior value then
customers will choose based on price
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26. What is Your Value Proposition
Answer these questions
Why should I buy something from you?
What value does your product provide to me?
How much is that worth to me – money, time saved, other benefits?
How quickly can I see the value your system delivers?
Why is your product better than other similar products?
Why is your product better than what I do at the moment?
Can you show me examples of your system delivering value?
Focus on the results you produce rather than what you do
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27. Value Proposition
1. Why should I buy something from you?
2. “What do you want to be famous for?”
3. How do people describe you when you’re not in the room?
Who is this for?
What is the need it addresses?
How do you solve that need / problem?
Is this unique to you? (This isn’t a deal breaker)
Your unique capability produces what result for me?
What impact will it have ? (Money, time saved ...)
Can you give me an example (I want evidence)?
How long will it take?
What about the obvious alternative? (Do nothing, manual, competitor)
Is this value proposition sustainable (i.e. will it still be true next year?)
“What results you produce for me” rather than “What you do “
Can you describe this in a few sentences on a web-page or when talking to a
prospect? E.g. Motorway billboard (= your website)
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28. Value Proposition
Typical problems
1. Talking about your company and its capabilities rather than focusing on
the customer
2. Talking about features instead of the value provided by those features
3. Using marketing waffle like ‘leading global provider of X’
4. Highlighting benefits that your customers don’t care about
5. Lack of a single definition within a company – if you ask two different
sales people you get two different answers as to what they do and why
they’re the best.
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29. Value Proposition
List out what you think you can do that makes
you unique
Then go ask your existing customers what they
think is the unique value you provide
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30. Value Proposition and The Market
Are you selling the right product for the market, sectors and buyers you are targeting?
Are you monitoring the environment in which you operate and the impact this may
have on your product, your customers and your to-to-market approach?
E.g. Increased use of iPads/smartphones, SaaS, regulatory changes, competitor
acquisitions, new standards
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31. Value Proposition and “The Whole Product”
Are you selling the “whole product”
This is the “stuff” that surrounds your technology such as training, videos, online help,
good support, partner technologies, integrations
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32. Value Proposition – NOSE framework
Tom Sant’s NOSE framework is a structure you can use to help
sell your Value Proposition
Describe your value proposition using this 4 step format
Need - what is the need the customer is experiencing
today?
Outcome – what could tomorrow look like if things could be
improved, what great results could be achieved?
Solution – what is your solution?
Evidence – can you show evidence of where you’ve done
this before?
Search for ‘Tom Sant’ on Google to get other presentations and
resources on value propositions, effective sales communication
and writing proposals.
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35. Understandproblem
The your buyers
Why can’t I market to everybody?
• People are tempted to try to market to all potential users
• You worry that if you focus on one group or one geography you will exclude
the others
• This is wrong for a couple of reasons:
– Limited promotional budget – you have a fixed amount of money to spend on
promotion. Concentrating that spend on a clearly defined target group will
produce better results than spreading it thinly across multiple potential target
groups
– Trying to be all things to all people generally doesn’t work when launching a
new product. If you designed a car that tried to appeal to young families, men in
their 20s and elderly women, you would end up with a mishmash that appeals
to no-one. The same is usually true with technology products. You should focus
your product and promotion on one or two sectors for your launch.
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36. Understandproblem
The your buyers
Define who you are targeting
Use some logic when picking your first target customers
Use “Personas” as a tool to understand them
Talk directly to customers to find out what they need
Don’t make assumptions without verifying them
Don’t be smarter than your customers
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37. Understandproblem
The your buyers
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand
the customer so well that the product or service
fits him and sells itself”
Peter Drucker
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38. Who Are Your Target Buyers?
Who are your buyers?
Where are they (countries, languages)
What industry sectors?
What types of organisation? Size, location ...
Any specific target companies?
What are their typical roles or titles?
How does your system relate to their job?
What are their key concerns/drivers/goals?
What are their demographics?
Where do they hang out online?
What sources of information do they use? 38
39. Understand your buyers
• Who you are targeting – what kinds of organisations?
• Who are your favourite customers?
• Answer these questions and develop an “ideal customer profile”
• Understand the buyers within those
organisations - “Buyer Persona
Analysis”.
• A description of a ‘typical’ person in
that role at your major customer e.g.
Finance manager, sales director,
MD ...
40. Understand your buyers
Ideal customer profile – current customers
Think of one of your favourite customers
•Why are they ideal? - Size, revenue, long-term relationship, good interaction, they
value your product and service ....
•Sector, Organisation size, Location
•Top 5 roles e.g. Who is usually your champion/ economic buyer / technical
evaluator / purchasing / users
•Budget
•Why do they buy from you?
•What objections do they bring up?
•Why do your customers stay with you?
•When do they buy from you –
“Trigger events” – e.g. new senior manager appointed, new product announced ...
41. Understand your buyers
• A way to ‘step into the shoes’ of your prospective buyers
• Similar to “design personas” used by web designers, and aligns with Agile approach
to user centred product design
• ‘Personas’ are aggregate descriptions of 4 to 5 typical buyers you are going to meet
on a regular basis – your ‘imaginary friends’
• Some common ‘types’ e.g. General managers, sales managers, day-to-day users
• Interview sample buyers in each sector you target e.g. Compliance Manager, Sales
Manager, HR Manager ...
• What are their key concerns and drivers? How do they describe their job?
• Where do you fit into their overall picture? Are you a big part of their typical day?
• What is their “compelling reason to buy” your products and services?
• What would stop them from buying your services?
• What do they read, where do they gather information, who influences them?
42. Understand your buyers
Examples: IMEC customer driven by EPA breaches, Mergon customer focused on
med device certification, Rocudo and Facebook usage
43. Understand your buyers
Buyer Process Scenarios
• Take the Buyer Personas
• Based on real conversations with customers and prospects, walk each
‘Persona’ through an example sales process
• Plot out the interactions, the points where the persona is likely to ask for
assistance or information, and who/where they get that assistance from
• Document the kind of information they need at each point
• Identify who they interact with during the decision process
• Identify what 3rd party sources they consider important e.g. Forrester,
Gartner
44. What content will interest your Buyers? “Bait”
Content Strategy
Digital Marketing is like fishing – you need the correct bait to attract your fish
Different buyers have different information needs at each stage of the buying process
So, if you identify 3 to 4 typical buyers – General Manager, Sales & Marketing Director,
Head of Compliance ...
Develop content that meets the information needs of these buyers at different stages
of their buying cycle
This will be used as online “bait” to bring them to your website
Types of content
•Case studies
•Research
•Education e.g. slides
and tutorials
•Tours and overviews
•How to tips
•News
•Thought leadership
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47. Your Website
Persuade them to Convince them to
Bring people Persuade them to
sign-up for a Free renew each year –
(traffic) to pay for your
Trial or download retain your
your website service
content customers
Traffic Conversion Subscription Retention
Traffic Conversion Subscription Retentio
n
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48. Your Website
Your web-site
The most important marketing tool you have
Your best sales-person 24/7/365
A sales lead generation machine
Drive visitors to your site
Get them to take “Most wanted action”
49. Your Website
Checklist
“Outside In” – make sure your website reflects your target customers
Design for Search – Mobile – Social
Value Proposition is clear
Easy to find information
Clear “Calls to Action” - CTAs
Trust – make it clear you are trustworthy
Evidence – proof that you can do what you say you do
Measure and analyse traffic and visitor behaviour
Competitor analysis – look at their websites, keywords, messaging, value proposition
50. Your Website
1. The Website
What to include on your site
Have you adequately provided this information on the site?
Have you described what you do, who you target, case studies, about us biographies ...
51. Your Website
Have plenty of “bait” on your site
B2B - Documents, presentations, content that people will want to download
Ask for their email address and name in return for downloads
B2C - special offers, buy now (if B2C online sales)
In both cases, product videos are a great promotional tools
52. Your Website
Redesigning an existing site
Define what you want to achieve by the redesign
Measure current figures for visitors, sales, leads
Audit your site – list all existing pages, incoming links to your pages, documents ...
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ will list the pages on your site
http://www.seoprofiler.com/analyze/yoursite.com and www.seomoz.org/linkscape to
check how many sites link to you
Make sure none of these pages and links are lost when you move to the new site
Use “301 redirects” to ensure links to old pages are redirected to the corresponding new page
e.g. www.mysite.com/oldpage -> www.mysite.com/newpage
Measure the performance of the new site e.g. using Google Analytics
Test different versions of a page – what’s known as A/B testing – to see which one works
better with your visitors
55. Your Website
Graphics
Keep graphics down to less than 3rd of home page – see heatmaps
Use images of real people, avoid clichéd stock images
Make the entire graphic clickable
Make sure graphic is ‘tagged’ so you turn up on image searches
Use Clicktale or similar tool to check how visitors move around your pages
57. Your The Website
1. Website
Website recap
Reflect your buyer in the web-page design (‘outside in, not inside out’) – use “Buyer
Personas”
Make it easy for visitors to accomplish goals e.g. find information, contact you (put your
number on the home page), get you to contact them (call back button), search
Think about your “Most Wanted Actions” – what do you want them to do?
If you want them to do something (go to a section of the site, download content, buy
something) then make it obvious and easy
Keep your website design and structure simple and easy to navigate
Use conventions where possible e.g. ‘home’ at the top left and on company logo
Provide ‘bait’ on each page – downloadable content
If you are doing a redesign, make sure to carry over your existing “web assets” – pages and
links
Monitor your site with Google analytics or similar system
58. Your The Website
1. Website
Website resources
“Don’t make me think” by Steve Krug
HubSpot (www.hubspot.com) – search for “Science of website redesign” and “Website
Design Tips and Tricks 2010”
Jakob Nielsen, Usability Bulletin www.use-it.com
Personas – “About Face: the essentials of interaction design” by Alan Cooper et al
MarketingExperiments.com – provide regular statistics on website tests
“The Art of SEO” by Eric Enge, Rand Fishkin et al – advice on good website design for search
engine optimization
61. Google Ads
1 Keyword analysis
Your ad text
Why we’re great
2 Ad text Call us now!
www.mywebsite.com
3 Landing page
Campaign set-up – budget, geography
Name
Keyword analysis – what are people searching for Email
Ad text – variants Download
Bids and cost-per-click
Bid management
Broadmatch, exact match, negative keywords
Keyword insertion
62. Google Ads
Keyword selection
Think about how visitors search for your product or service
Thousands of ways people search for things, but usually fall into a category :
The actual question they have e.g. “how do I fix a broken pipe”
The answer to the question e.g. “plumbers in Galway”
A description of the problem e.g. “broken water pipe in kitchen”
A symptom of the problem e.g. “flooded kitchen”
A description of the cause e.g. “frozen pipes”
Producer parts or brand names e.g. Bosch, Philips
For each product, think how people might search for it, using the above as a guide
Use Google’s free Keyword Tool to help generate more keywords
Sort by “volume of searches” and “level of competition”
Break them into groups of 20 to 30 keywords and put them in Ad Groups
63. Google Ads
Writing your ad
To get started, search for your targeted terms and monitor what ads are displayed
Draft 4 to 5 versions of the ad to begin with
Run multiple versions of your ads, monitoring which ones work the best
64. Google Ads design
2. Landing page
Convert your visitors! – Landing Pages
Rule #1: Avoid unnecessary distractions – push visitor to your “Most Wanted Action”
Be consistent with the ad or email that brought your visitor here, including
keywords, logos and other images
Spell out your Value Proposition and the benefits of this particular offer and have a
clear call to action
Remove any unnecessary navigation
Try to keep registration fields to a minimum e.g. Name and email
“A/B” test 2 versions of landing page to see which works best
Use Google analytics to monitor conversions
65. Google Ads design
2. Landing page
Monitor and improve your ads
Click through rate
Average cost per click
66. Google Ads design
2. Landing page
General approach
Choose your topic “themes” - the main things you want to get found for e.g. Web Design,
Digital Marketing, Compliance, Video Learning
Generate keywords under each theme – the more the better – using Google keyword tool
Structure your keywords into “Ad Groups” of 30 to 40
Create multiple text ads per ad group
Monitor
“impressions” per keyword i.e. How many times the ad is shown
Clicks per keyword
Clicks per ad
Cost per click
Clickthrough Rate (CTR) per ad
67. Google Ads design
2. Landing page
Google ad resources
“Advanced Google AdWords” by Brad Geddes
“Optimizing landing pages for lead generation” – HubSpot
Unbounce.com – landing page optimization tool
Google WebSite Optimizer
WiderFunnel.com
WhichTestWon.com
ConversionScientist.com
69. Social Media
• Why will people share your status updates?
• What do you want to happen when they do?
70. Social Media – Blog
Blogs
• What? Basically like a website that you can easily edit and update
• Why? Draws more traffic to your web-site, leads, sales
• Can form the basis for your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter marketing
• Allows readers to provide feedback
• Can paste in YouTube videos, SlideShare slides
72. Social Media – Blog
How do you start a blog?
• Check out Blogger and Wordpress – both
are free
• Now also have Tumblr
• Keep posts short – 200 to 300 words
• Write about how you do your job, how to
use a product, trends in your sector, “top
10 tips”
• Long enough to cover everything
important, short enough to keep people
wanting to see more
• Put in images and videos, otherwise
visually boring
• Have a “Call to action” at the end – offer
people something, get them to do
something
73. Social Media – Facebook
Why should you care about Facebook?
Facebook users by age
74. Social Media – Facebook
• Over 1.5 million active users in Ireland
• Lots of your customers
• 2nd most trafficked website
• Get found, promote your stuff, connect with
others
• Get started: Set up a personal page first
• Connect with friends, join groups
• Set up a business page second
• Put links to your Facebook pages on emails,
web-site, ….
• Encourage people to “Like” your page
• Set up and promote events
• Test Facebook ads
75. Social Media – Facebook
1. Set up and fill-in your Personal Profile
2. Set up Facebook Business Page (not Group and not Personal page)
3. Put links on your website, email signature, press ads
4. Encourage people to ‘Like’ you
5. Find other pages that have high numbers of your target
customers, “Like” them and post to their wall
6. Post videos, make offers, upload photos – keep up a steady stream of content
on a frequent schedule e.g. aim for every 2nd or 3rd day
76. Social Media – Facebook
Make sure you have the “follow” and “like” buttons on your site
and blog comments – and “like” is more important
77. Social Media – Facebook
Who are you targeting?
What are your goals in using Facebook for your business?
• Sales
• Conversions
• Facebook “Likes”
• Traffic to your website / blog
• Email subscriptions
Set specific targets
• Increase sales by XX%
• Grow Facebook likes by YY%
Implement Facebook Marketing Activities
• Welcome page
• “Like” button on your website and blog
Monitoring
• Facebook insights
• Google analytics
• AllFacebookStats
78. Social Media – Facebook
Facebook
Try Facebook ads
Can specify targeting criteria
Includes location, age, birthday, sex,
workplace, education and interests
So, could run ads to women only in 30 to
40 age bracket in your area to test the
results
http://www.facebook.com/marketing
79. Social Media – Facebook
• Hubspot - “Facebook marketing update Spring 2011”
• Hubspot – “Facebook page marketing 2011”
• Who’s Blogging What – “The Facebook Page Marketing Guide 2010”
• Hubspot – “Small business cases studies – social media”
• Larry Chase Web Digest for Marketers – “Social media marketing guide – 12 key tools”
• SimplyZesty – www.simplyzesty.com – excellent source of information on Facebook and other
social media marketing
80. Social Media – Google+
Why should you care about Google+ ?
81. Social Media – YouTube
Why? To draw online traffic, and to sell to people 24 hours a day
Video yourself talking about your product or service
Relate to your business – e.g. “how we used the product”
Video a customer talking about themselves and working with you
Home-made is good
Sign-up on YouTube (2 minutes and its free)
Post it on YouTube, and customize your YouTube page
Link to YouTube from your website, blog, Twitter ….
82. Social Media – LinkedIn
What?
• Professional network
• 250,000 users in Ireland
• 75 million worldwide
Why?
• So people can find you
• So you can find prospective customers –
‘prospecting’
• So you can promote events
How
• Create your personal profile
• Connect to people you know
• Join Groups
• Get staff to create their profiles and connect
• Create company profile
• Fill out company product and services
84. Social Media – Twitter
• What: Listen, Tweet, Respond
• Why?: Traffic to your website, inbound links, leads, sales
• How: 140 character “tweets”
• E.g. press release headline
• Can also insert links to stuff you like/find interesting
• Follow others e.g. customers, influencers
• Make your tweets useful e.g. links to web-site, video, news item
• Tweet about good stuff your business is doing
• Customer service
85. Social Media – Twitter
• Create your personal account
• Look for people to “follow” e.g. someone in the same business, a supplier, commentator,
partner
• Tweet about special offers, news, discounts
• Link to your blog – tweet all your posts
• Link to press releases – tweet all your releases
• Link to your Facebook and LinkedIn Accounts
• Put “Follow us” buttons on your email, website, blog
• Check out what happens on Google analytics – e.g. can see people clicking on Tweet,
coming to blog, then coming to your website
• Use Hootsuite or other tools to manage Twitter
• Can use Hootsuite to track competitor feeds or monitor for particular phrases e.g. “help
with CRM wanted”
86. Social Media – Slideshare
What
• Free storage area to put up slide presentations, word documents, PDF documents
• Really useful for anyone involved in professional services
• Can collect leads from people who download your content
• Can place stuff here and link to it from your blog
• Can also record voice over on your slides then post it here, then link to your blog or website –
good for recording a sales pitch or product demo
89. Email marketing
Email
Email System (e.g.
Constant Contact or
Vertical Response)
sends personalized email
to each recipient and
User writes records who opens,
the email deletes, opts out
1 text and 2
uploads list Reply Visit to
of your
recipients 3
website
to email
system
Download
Inbound
Marketing
Guide NOW!
93. Why SEO is important:
• Business buyers as well as consumers search online
when looking for products and services
• 85% of those buyers find what they want via search
engines
• If they can’t find you, they will find a competitor
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Paid Search
(ads) are the two main tools to ensure you are found
• You should understand the basics of how search
engines prioritize search results
• Then you can decide what to do about it – do nothing,
do it yourself or hire someone to help
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94. Why is Search Engine Optimization important?
Because most people (75%) click on the ‘natural’ search
results rather than ‘paid’ ads
25% of clicks
go to the
75% of clicks go “paid”
to the “natural” advertising
or “organic” results you
search results see at the top
you see at the and right-
left hand side of hand side of
the search Google and
results pages Bing search
pages
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95. Why is Search Engine Optimization important?
Because when people do search, they usually don’t look
past the first results on page 1
Most people (64%) click on the
first 3 results on Google page 1
•42% to the first result
•12% to the second
•9% to the third
Less than 10% click on pages
beyond page 1
Source: SEOBook and SEOMoz
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96. Search Engine Optimization
• Search Engine Optimization is the process you use to appear higher in the search
engine results pages for searches relevant to your business
• It is based on first understanding how people search for terms related to your
business - keyword analysis
• You then use that understanding to update your website, interact with social
media and seek links so you can push your business higher up on the search results
Keyword Analysis
Content on your
Website settings
pages
Links
(incoming, outgoing Social media
and internal)
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97. Search Engine Optimization
• People take different routes when searching for your kinds of products and
services
• You need to understand which kinds of searches are best at bringing your desired
buyers to you online
• You should analyze each major ‘search route’ into your site so that you can
increase that traffic
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99. Search Engine Optimization
Signals that Google uses to decide which page to show for a query
Overall, it looks at relevance and popularity.
The list below is from an SeoMoz.org poll of SEO companies – 9 most important factors
1. Keyword use in title tag
2. Anchor text in inbound link
3. Global link authority of site
4. Age of site
5. Link popularity within the site’s internal structure
6. Topical relevance of inbound links
7. Link popularity of site in topical community
8. Keyword use in body text
9. Global link popularity of sites that link to the site
100. Search Engine Optimization
The Long Tail
• The most popular keywords account for 18.5 % of search traffic
• They are the most competitive terms – it is usually hard to get a new web page onto the top
of page 1 for these terms
• However, over 70% of searches are for less common terms – these are the ‘long tail’
keyword phrases
• Usually these terms are 3 words or longer and are more specific e.g. “1996 green 3 series
bmw” rather than “bmw”
• Targeting these ‘long tail’ keywords is a good way to get more traffic to your site
Source: SEOMoz.org
102. Search Engine Optimization
Three main tasks in SEO
“On Page” – configure settings and place content on your website
“Off Page” – Link Strategy – encourage other sites to link to you
Social media – has an increasing effect on your rankings in the results pages
WWW
WWW
WWW
WWW WWW
On page Off page Social media
103. Search Engine Optimization
First step – KEYWORD ANALYSIS – what terms do you want to be found for?
Start similar to Google PPC keyword analysis – use Google keyword tool
But – you have to pick smaller selection of keywords to focus on
Sort by search volume (high) and level of competition (low)
Pick top candidate phrases for your key phrases
Optimize specific pages for particular terms
More pages, more terms you can optimize for
104. Search Engine Optimization
‘On page’ optimization – 5 settings per page, plus regular use of your
target keywords on an optimized page with relevant content
1. Page Title
2. URL
3. Header tags
4. Text, internal links, bold
5. Page description text
105. Search Engine Optimization
‘Off page’ optimization – get other sites to link to you
A link: www.dohertywhite.com
Links should be from other good sites
To get links, provide information/content that
people think is valuable and should be shared
Identify a target list of sites you’d like to link to you
Who links to you now?
Who links to your competitors?
What sites are top for the search terms related to you?
What standard directories are there - irelandlookup.com,
localpages.ie, europages.ie
What associations are you a member of e.g. the Chamber
106. SEO
2. Landing page design
SEO Resources
“Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide” – Google
“SEO Quick Guide” – DohertyWhite (lists other reources)
“Learning SEO from the Experts” – Hubspot
“Introduction to Search Engine Optimization” – Hubspot
“The Art of SEO” - Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin and Jessie Stricchiola
QuickSprout (Neil Patel) – good advice on driving traffic
SEOMoz.Org – Blog updates, “White board Friday” seminars
Bruce Clay – respected SEO expert
108. Analytics
Metrics , Analytics and Reporting
Having identified objectives you should identify corresponding metrics and report
on them
Use Google analytics to measure and report on website traffic numbers, bounce
rates and traffic sources (among other metrics)
Google adwords provides reports on impressions, click through rates, cost per click
Monitor leads generated, what they downloaded, their IP address etc
The email marketing systems will provide reporting on bounce rates, open rates,
click through rates per email campaign
We can generate SEO reports that show traffic per keyword, relative improvement
over time, competitor ranking for selected keywords etc.
Combine the key metrics into a one-page weekly summary so you can easily plot
your progress against the top 5 to 10 objectives e.g. Traffic, leads, lead quality, email
response rates etc.
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110. The overall approach
Understand who you are targeting (your buyers) – what are their
roles, which companies do they work for, where are they, what is
important to them, how do you connect with them?
What are you selling – what does your product and service do for
them, what is your value proposition for these buyers? ?
How do you compare with competitors – which ones are worth
focusing on, how do you differentiate from them?
Generate ‘content’ – based on your understanding of the buyers,
create information that your target buyers will find useful e.g. Case
studies, white papers, research surveys, how to guides ...
Drive traffic to that content using PPC, email, SEO, PR, social http://
media
B2C – Sell your product(s) now
B2B - Capture contact details in exchange for your content
Build a relationship with those people over time via your content,
website, social media and email so they learn and understand your 110
proposition, answer their concerns and select you as their best choice
111. The overall approach
1 Revise website 2 Generate content 3 Launch Google 4 Email 5 Generate PR
based on buyer to attract visitor pay-per-click Marketing and online PR
analysis, add registrations ads
landing pages
6 Post to Corporate 7 Launch Search Engine Hardcopy Mail to Telemarketing
8 9
Blog and Social Optimization selected contacts qualification of
Media activities warm leads
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113. How do you sell to those buyers?
Convince them to
Bring people Persuade them Persuade them to
renew each year –
to your to sign-up for a pay for your
retain your
website Free Trial service
customers
Traffic Conversion Subscription Retention
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114. Key Points:
•Understand your buyers
•Be clear about the value you deliver
•Get good at online marketing
•Use content as ‘bait’
•Keep cost of sales low – use web and phone
•Measure performance of your process
•Continually improve conversion rates
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115. Outcomes from today’s seminar
At the end of today you should know …
1. Why Digital Marketing is important for technology startups
2. How you can get started
3. A structure you can use – start, middle, end
4. How to prioritize what you should do first
5. Practical examples – Google ads, blog email, Facebook etc.
6. Where to look for help
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116. Outcomes from today’s seminar
Digital marketing is essential to promote
your business…
1. What – what are you selling?
2. Who – who are you selling to?
3. How – how do you promote yourself?
3.1 Website
3.1 Google ads
3.1 Social media
3.1 Email marketing
3.1 Search Engine Optimization
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117. Recommended reading
Books
• “Lean Startup”, Eric Ries
• “Crossing the Chasm”, Geoffrey Moore
• “Innovators Dilemma”, Clayton Christensen
• “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, Peter Drucker
• Harvard MBA course on startups – recommended reading
• http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/01/launching-tech-ventures-
part-iv.html?spref=tw
• Building a sales and marketing machine – Dave Skok –
• http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/slides-sales-marketing-machine/
• Brad Feld, VC, author of “Do more faster” – www.feld.com